Development of Modestly Educational Video Platform

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Modestly is a web-based platform designed to help educators, schools, and parents share educational video content in a safe, branded, and distraction-free environment — eliminating YouTube recommendations, comments, autoplay, and ads.

It consists of two complementary products:

mdst-central — a fully featured multi-tenant platform for schools and organizations, with user role management, content control, and analytics.

mdst-individual — a simplified solution for personal users, allowing them to generate branded, clutter-free video pages without creating an organization.

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YouTube isn’t built for classrooms — ads, comment sections, and related videos distract students.

No access control on shared links — making it hard to limit who sees what.

Schools and educators lack control over video experiences they send to students.

Modestly addresses these with a secure, customizable platform that allows:

Safe, branded video links

Access control with blacklist/whitelist logic

Admin dashboards and organizational management

Rich analytics on views and usage

As part of the development team, I worked on both mdst-central and mdst-individual, focusing on:

Frontend polishing and bug fixes to stabilize the production-ready MVP

Legacy code refactoring to streamline maintenance and scalability

Performance optimization by reducing unnecessary requests and speeding up load times

Implementation of blacklist and CAPTCHA logic for access control and abuse prevention

Unifying UI components and layout to ensure consistency across the entire platform

Setting up feature flag logic and secure guard mechanisms to manage rollout and access

Organization admins can invite users, assign roles, and manage access

Guard logic enforces tenant-level permissions and blacklists

Google OAuth login and Cloudflare CAPTCHA for secure onboarding

Each link has a branded landing page with school logo, theme, and custom legal text

Videos are embedded without comments, recommendations, or autoplay

Links can be password-protected and limited by time or usage

Users can save and categorize video content into a searchable resource library

Filtering, tagging, and metadata tools simplify content organization

Master admin dashboard to oversee platform-wide usage

Tenant-level insights on video views, engagement, user activity, and more

Mixpanel used for granular event tracking and insight generation

Feature flags system allows selective rollout of platform features

Blacklist manager to restrict users or video links

Centralized user and tenant management interface

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Implemented clear separation between master and tenant scopes

Context-aware routing and permissions

Synced Supabase types and schemas between frontend and backend to avoid drift

Used React Query for efficient caching and background updates

Applied lazy loading and modular data fetching for speed improvements

Reduced frontend/API noise and optimized initial load

Refactored boilerplate into a modular, scalable SaaS structure

Introduced clean domain modeling and layered type definitions for Supabase entities

Synchronized DB types with frontend models to prevent runtime bugs

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Delivered a production-ready SaaS product for both organizational and individual users

Built a flexible multi-tenant system with branded video experiences

Provided strong access control, secure link sharing, and real-time analytics

Created a scalable foundation with optimized performance and clean architecture

Enabled schools and educators to control their digital classroom environment with confidence